While 2011 was the first time Soderbergh came to SDCC (hawking Haywire, which could just as well be on this list) he was represented at the Con years earlier by none other than James Cameron.

Solaris sank a lot of dough down a black hole, but I don’t think anyone on the team had any misgivings about the film they were making. (And 20th Century Fox is not in the business of saying “no” to James Cameron.) As a result, we have that rarest of things – a thoughtful, inspired and intelligent science fiction film with state of the art effects. It’s a gorgeous looking (and sounding) film that, once you get on its wavelength, is mesmerizing. There are times when I think I prefer this (vastly shorter) version to the Andrei Tarkovsky original.